scabby

Example Sentences

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Something is genuinely off about the goings-on at the conference, from strange deaths and elevators that suddenly aren’t elevators, to a rash of scabby infections afflicting guests and the discovery of a subterranean tunnel.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

"My daughter has a rash across her leg, which is scabby and itchy, and my eldest has anxiety and worries constantly about the mould."

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024

He describes reef rashes, sun-caused cataracts, scabby ears, a broken nose, cuts from sea-urchin spines and mottled arms that may presage skin cancer.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2015

Beyond stored scabby remnants, smallpox may still exist in suspended animation within buried corpses or mummified human remains.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2014

Quickly it was realized that petroleum in volume not only could be used to bind bowels and banish scabby growths but could be refined into lucrative products like paraffin and kerosene.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson